This Moses was a fair and comely man, <br />His wife a swarthy Ethiopian; <br />Nor did his milk-white bosom change her sin. <br />She came out thence as black as she went in. <br />Now Moses was a type of Moses' law, <br />His wife likewise of one that never saw <br />Another way unto eternal life; <br />There's mystery, then, in Moses and his wife. <br />The law is very holy, just, and good, <br />And to it is espoused all flesh and blood; <br />But this its goodness it cannot bestow <br />On any that are wedded thereunto. <br />Therefore as Moses' wife came swarthy in, <br />And went out from him without change of skin, <br />So he that doth the law for life adore, <br />Shall yet by it be left a black-a-more.<br /><br />John Bunyan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/of-moses-and-his-wife/
